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Independent Council on Women’s Sports: 🌐Network of female athletes advocating saving women’s sports 🏛️Funding lawsuit for female athletes against the NCAA

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🚨🚨Breaking: 16 Female Athlete’s File Landmark Title IX Lawsuit Against the NCAA ICONS commitment to funding this lawsuit follows through on our promise to hold the NCAA accountable after prolonged discrimination against its female athletes. Meet the athletes & read the full…
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Massachusetts GIRLS’ basketball team forfeits at halftime against KIPP Academy with male player standing over 6’ tall with facial hair. The coach “felt that his girls were getting injured, basically, all game,”
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Boy Dominates Girls' High School Conference in California Male runner, Athena Ryan from @sonomaacademy finished 1st in a field of 55 girls at the Coastal Mountain Conference Championships in Santa Rosa, CA this month. @_TechnologyHS freshman Josie Hill was cheated out of her…
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Martina Navratilova blasts US Tennis Association after trans-identifying male, Alicia Rowley won women's national tournament and claims the sport is 'not for failed male athletes' ⁦ @usta
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🏃Trans-identifying male, Athena Ryan (Jr) took 2nd today in the “Girls 1600m” at a CA State Championship qualifier meet in Dublin, CA. Ryan beamed while 4th place senior, Adeline Johnson gave a thumb down after losing the chance to advance to the State Championships by 1 spot.
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50-year-old 'trans'-identifying male prevented from competing at kids swim meet Host team tells Orangeville Otters: don’t come with middle-aged male swim team member Watch:
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🚨🚨🚨Police called on 19 women @ICFSport in Vancouver by Canadian Powerlifting Union Pres. Shane Martin Women dressed in black to “mourn women’s sports” with “XY≠XX” stickers cheered female lifters forced to compete at CAN Nationals against trans identifying male, Anne Andres.
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🏋🏽 These women refused to stop cheering for women asking for support like @Lea_Christina4 and would NOT leave after multiple men threatened and intimidated them. #ourbodiesoursports @ICFSport @coachblade
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NCAA male swimmer, Meg Cortez-Fields at Ramapo College, NJ, switched to the women's team, using their locker room & sharing hotel rooms with female teammates this season. He won 2 women's events & erased a woman's name from the record books in Dallas, PA this weekend. @NCAA
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The NCAA was dead wrong to force female athletes like @Riley_Gaines_ to share a locker room with biological men. The NCAA should apologize to female athletes - and stop forcing women to stand by while men take over their sports
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🚩🚩Shutting GIRLS down on Senior Night Vermont's Long Trail girls' basketball team is dominating this season with 17-1 record. The GIRLS team star player is 6'1" male center, Rose Johnson. Mid Vermont Christian School was barred from all athletic play after forfeiting against…
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👟Male runner, Cece Telfer, displaced collegiate women in the finals of a women's invitational meet in Boston last month. Telfer, the first openly trans-identifying male to win a women's NCAA national title in the 400m hurdles (2019), ran unattached. After bumping a female…
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Male cross-country runner, Soren Stark-Chessa won the @MPA_Sports Girls S. Maine Championships this morning by almost 1.5min 3rd place, Haley Williams lamented “it’s really, it’s very upsetting to me because I’ve worked my butt off all year.”
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Harassing 5-year-old girls who advocate for fair competition in athletics is a desperate tactic of radicals who are starting to recognize that girls are winning in the battle over their own sports.
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DISGUSTING: Protestors targeted young girls outside of the signing of the #SaveWomensSports Act in Texas. Girls, as young as 5, were harassed & called vulgar names, all for joining the celebration of protecting equal athletic opportunity.
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Security removed women from the field seen holding signs in support of girls in the sectional meet. Many parents were completely unaware there was a boy competing in girls races. Others, were appreciative that they were there when they themselves felt silenced. @WomenAreReals
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"Did my penis distract you?" MA teen boy, Derek Cannuscio's inappropriate comment to opposing female player post girls' volleyball game sparks controversy. Heated girls' match: Opposing team fans booed the male team captain. 🧵 @MIAA033
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Male high jumper Maelle Jacques won a GIRLS' high school state title yesterday in New Hampshire. @NHIAA_LOA His winning jump was almost 10" lower than the boys' winning height. His 10 pt score helped the Kearsage HS girls' track & field team jump to runner-up in the state among…
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Title IX has become a tool to strip away women’s rights, marking a complete betrayal. The Biden Administration is well aware of the harm they're inflicting on women and girls with their radical overhaul of Title IX. Despite hearing from hundreds of thousands of people, including…
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Today, in LV ahead of the Super Bowl @Dove unveils girls sports campaign Is Dove the first major corporate sponsor to publicly back saving women’s sports?
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🚨🚨 Court Appeal Announcement‼️ @USAPowerlifting files appeal in lawsuit after Judge orders USAPL cease ALL operations in Minnesota unless it permits male athletes to compete against women in powerlifting competitions ✨Read the details HERE: …
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@ReduxxMag @LetOregonLearn These record setting high school male athletes will be rewarded with women’s collegiate roster spots and scholarships. The @NCAA encourages these boys to dominate disadvantaged girls for huge financial and academic gain.
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UPenn swimmer, @PaulaYScanlan will be speaking on an incredible panel with @Riley_Gaines_ at our upcoming International Women’s Sports Summit in Denver, July 21-23! Join dozens of global experts in law, science and policy next month! ✨Register TODAY
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A teammate of Lia Thomas appeared in What Is A Woman anonymously. A few days ago she came to us and said she is ready to come out publicly and tell her story. I had a longer conversation with Paula where she revealed a number of details that weren't covered in the film. Watch:
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🎾 Male tennis player Brooklyn Ross, 27, sparks fury in Wyoming and female tennis association president quits after he’s allowed to compete in women’s Governor's Cup tournament: 'It's a very unfair matchup’
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🚴"I have decided to end my cycling career. At my last race at the recent UCI Cyclocross National Championships in the elite women’s category in Dec '22, I came in 4th place, flanked on either side by male riders awarded 3rd & 5th places." Hannah Arensman
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Male tennis player, Brooklyn Ross (27) drops out of women’s Governor's Cup after finally being publicly exposed for participating in women’s tennis matches since college in 2019
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Judge order: if @USAPowerlifting won't subject women lifters to unfair competition by allowing males in the women's category, then no one can compete at all. The sport of powerlifting has been destroyed for both men & women in MN. We applaud USA Powerlifting for its commitment…
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The judge in our ongoing litigation in Minnesota, involving the appropriate and fair inclusion of transgender athletes, has ordered us to cease doing business in Minnesota despite the plaintiff NOT requesting this. We will appeal this highly unusual ruling.
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🏃Freshman trans-identifying male, Maelle Jacques won 2nd today in the girls 1600m at the @NHIAA_LOA DIII Track & Field State Championships. Jacques also scored points in 5th place in the High Jump and placed 13th in the Long Jump. Jacques helped lead his girls team to a…
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Although this #SCOTUS decision has extended the time it will take, the end of sex-discrimination in athletics is INEVITABLE. We are more determined than ever to make sure the US does not erase the hard-earned rights of women after only a few short decades.…
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“F#*% you Riley! Can’t swim Riley!” Women are winning & those who do not believe women deserve to win are getting desperate.
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For this reason and this reason only, I'll be quitting my activism of fighting to protecting women's sports and single-sex spaces. Things like this have become FAR too intimidating and happen way too often. This was the final straw...
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🎾 Male tennis player, Alicia Rowley is the latest Women’s National Tennis Champion and winner of the coveted “golden ball” Rowley has recently won the women’s 55+: 🥇Grass Court National Championships 🥇National Indoor Singles and Doubles
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Turn up the volume and listen to the screams NCAA President, @CharlieBakerMA
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It's reported that male player ( #2 for Swampscott) knocked the teeth out of female player. Males are allowed to play on female teams in MA because of the "equal play act" This is the town where NCAA president and past gov, Charlie baker lives. Care to comment, @CharlieBakerMA ?
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...The Christian school is suing state officials after being banned from all athletic and academic events for forfeiting a game over this male player last year. He continues to excel in girls' basketball this season. 🧵
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New Hampshire Male Track Athlete Favored To Win Girls State Championship Meet This Upcoming Weekend “Sophomore Maelle Jacques, a biological male, is ranked as the top high jumper in the division”
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“Why don’t girls just boycott?” They are. They have been. Policymakers continue to fail them.
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His daughter has earned 13 @CIFState patches and decided to pull out of her favorite race yesterday, because of a boy. “These girls are discouraged, they feel hopeless and they’re quitting…Stop taking things away from our little girls”. #TitleIX
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Jiu Jitsu apparel company vows never to sponsor competitions that allow male athletes to fight female opponents. Support companies that support women. Thank you @DSgear
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Datsusara is fully committed to protecting the right of female athletes to compete in a fair and safe environment. We will not sponsor any competition that allows biological males to compete in women's divisions. We will work to end this ideological insanity together.
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Our statement: World governing bodies like @UCI_cycling are all moving in the right direction; however, puberty is not the divide between man and woman. It is the divide between boy and man OR girl and woman. Female athletes deserve fair competition at every age and every level.…
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@wiaawa 🧵Unity in the face of adversity! Right before the meet, her teammates at King’s rallied & decided they'd all run as one at the back of the race to support one another. The silent, unified protest of being told their feelings & accomplishments meant less to the @wiaawa than one…
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We need a voice to defend the fair treatment of our next generation of female athletes. We will be that voice. ✨ Join us to learn WHY we must advocate for respect & equal opportunities in sports for women & girls and HOW to do it✨ Register NOW for the ICONS Women’s Sports…
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‘A male athlete places in the girls' high jump at track meets, raising more questions about fairness and gender identity in high school sports.’ There is no question. This is wrong.
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🧑‍⚖️67 athletes & supporters in our network filed an amicus brief to #SCOTUS in support of WV’s law protecting women’s sports. This is the 1st case to come before the Supreme Court addressing today’s threat to women’s athletics. Among the 67 female athletes...
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🚨Breaking: another NCAA women's swim team faces emotional distress after men's team athlete switch to women's team 'The school put so much onto us...whenever we made efforts...to try to express how we felt, every time we were just shoved to the side.'
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🧵On Saturday, a MALE runner on Seattle Academy's GIRLS' cross-country team made a 41-point difference, pushing them to a 2nd place team finish at the Washington State Girls Championships. King's HS girls lost their runner-up trophy in a tie-breaker (their 4th displaced trophy…
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📢Parents: middle aged men are lining up in women’s swimsuits to take swimming awards from your 13 year old daughters now. It’s time to start making noise‼️
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Swim competition allows a 50-year-old biological male to swim with 13 year-old girls FULL REPORT by @TheMenzoid :
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🥇Male Runner, Veronica Garcia Leads East Valley GIRLS' Team to Victory in 1600 Sprint Medley Relay Today
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